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Watching a live drone feed, it was possible to make out three people running down a street in a frontline town in northeastern Ukraine."Are they Russians?" I asked a Ukrainian soldier, who was also on the ground in Vovchansk and was showing us the footage from a secret location as we spoke to him via video link from outside the town. "Yes, yes," said Denys, 42, the commander of a […]

Divyendra Jadoun is proud of his professional alias: the Indian Deepfaker. "I know we do deepfakes," he tells Sky News. "Why would I use something else?" And Jadoun's services have been in demand recently, as India holds elections - often billed as the biggest democratic election on the planet.Deepfakes have been a feature, in some surprising ways. On occasion, they have been malicious. Bollywood actors have been falsely depicted criticising PM […]

He is the puppet master of Georgian politics - a man of fabulous wealth and extraordinary power.  And Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili is the focus of intense opposition as unrest sweeping his country reaches boiling point. From humble origins, he left Georgia to accumulate immense wealth in Russia through close ties with Putin's chosen few, the kleptocratic elites who have helped themselves to the country's riches in return for complete […]

A light plane has landed safely without landing gear after circling an Australian airport for almost three hours to burn off fuel.The pilot and two passengers walked away from the scene and did not need hospital treatment after the "textbook wheels-up landing". The plane had just taken off from Newcastle Airport, near Sydney, for a 112-mile flight north to Port Macquarie when the pilot raised the alarm about "issues with […]

Russia was able to open a new front in northeastern Ukraine because of delays in the supply of Western weapons to the frontline, the head of the region under attack has claimed.Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of Kharkiv, rejected criticism about an alleged lack of Ukrainian fortifications on a long border shared with Russia, insisting that defences are strong - even as Russian forces capture multiple villages and fierce fighting rages. […]

Elections bring out the best but also the worst of democracy.The long seven-phase process that stretches for 44 days is fraught with the menace of communal friction. India is now more polarised than before, with an ever-widening gap between the majority Hindus and minority Muslim population.Over the last 10 years fault lines have deepened and trust has been eroded between communities under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu right-wing government.In the […]

A Georgian opposition politician who was beaten by a group of hooded thugs has said he was targeted by "Putin's puppets".United National Movement member Dimitri Chikovani was taken to hospital after suffering a concussion, a broken nose, cuts to the face and two black eyes in the attack outside his home. In an interview with Sky News, Mr Chikovani said the attack was not a surprise and blamed Georgian authorities […]

A fourth man has been arrested in Canada over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader last June.Amandeep Singh, 22, was already in custody for unrelated firearms charges when he was charged with the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The 45-year-old Canadian Sikh was shot dead in the parking lot of a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia, where he was president last year.In a statement released late on Saturday, […]

Russia has reopened a major front in its war with Ukraine in a move that will stretch Kyiv's already undermanned and outgunned forces as they wait for Western weapons.The Russian military unleashed a ferocious barrage of artillery and airstrikes in the early hours of Friday morning as ground troops attempted the most significant incursion into northeastern Ukraine - territory that shares a long border with Russia - in two years. […]